apparently native american tribes were in contact with the donner party and offered them food when they saw the colonists were starving and the donner party turned them down and decided to go the whole “cannibalism” route instead.
Until now the Native American perspective has been left out of the telling of the Donner tragedy, not because the wel mel ti did not remember the pioneers, but because they were never asked, or perhaps were not ready to share. Their oral tradition recalls the starving strangers who camped in an area that was unsuitable for that time of year. Taking pity on the pioneers, the northern Washoe attempted to feed them, leaving rabbit meat and wild potatoes near the camps. Another account states that they tried to bring the Donner Party a deer carcass, but were shot at as they approached. Later, some wel mel ti observed the migrants eating human remains. Fearing for their lives, the area’s native inhabitants continued to watch the strangers but avoided further contact. These stories, and the archaeological evidence that appears to support them, certainly complicated my interpretation of the Donner Party event. The migrants at Alder Creek were not surviving in the mountains alone—the northern Washoe were there, and they had tried to help. (source)
tfw a group of unprepared strangers show up, refuse the food you offer them, start fucking cannibalizing each other, and then call you the savages
If you have ideas already for what each Hero would test Link on, you can ignore this. But one lesson could be to not be afraid to cut loose and go all out from time to time. As for the teacher, either TP Link (Wolf form and ferocity) or Child Time Link (Fierce Deity Mask.) could teach it. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! As for the tests I didn’t really think of each of Link’s past lives teaching him anything specific but it does make sense that they would. o3o
Hmmm… Actually I’m not entirely sure what each of Link’s lifetimes could teach him specifically but before I figure that out, lemme hash out all the lifetimes he’ll actually encounter in the trials:
-Goddess’ Champion (SS): The first lifetime Link ever had; a difficult fight but not the most difficult opponent in the Trials, the second to last “boss fight”. Probably the most straight-forward fight in the Trials.
-Hero of Time (OoT and MM): Probably the most difficult opponent in the Trials due to his use of the Masks and the Ocarina. Switches often between the body of a child and an adult but would probably stop in the teens at the end of the battle
-Hero of the Twilight (TP): Would fully utilize his wolf and human forms and will encourage Link to do the same. Wears Midna’s helmet as his own and is the only incarnation who seems to have a deeper grasp on magic aside from the Hero of Time.
-Champion of Wind and Sea (WW, PO): One of the few of the Trials to be shown as a child, I’d imagine his fight to be centered around ship warfare and the ability to stop time for brief periods
-Hero of the Sword (MC, FS,): Second incarnation to be depicted as a child, has the ability to make upwards to 4 clones of himself and animating his bird-like hat to be a weapon in its own unique way.
-Captain of Hyrule (HW): Not too sure if I’m gonna add this one, but I’m thinking about it. Of all the incarnations he’s the only one to lead an army into battle and utilizes that in his battle.
-Champion on Hyrule (BotW): The final incarnation of the Trial and the last lifetime Link had before he was born again in the current timeline. I’d imagine his fight is unique in that it doesn’t actually start with one: he has a long chat with his future self about the fear of failing… and actually having that fear being realized. If there is a fight to be had, it’ll be one that’s impossible to beat at first: Link would be beaten and defeated a few times, only to have to start all over again. But eventually the hopelessness gives way to a reminder that he isn’t as alone as he thinks and that it isn’t just him who’s fighting for the world: he has his friends and allies to back him every step of the way.
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A work in progress but yhuh, there ya have it! Now that I’ve gotten some idea of who the incarnations will be I think I have a few ideas of what the main Trial they represent would be. O:
remember: the ‘holy’ white doves are just white rock doves, aka the common pigeon!
Doves are just pigeons with white privilege
Also can we talk about how STUNNING their irredentist feathers are?
This post made me finally look up whether Australian crested pigeons are also doves, and I didn’t quite understand the wiki page but I think the answer is ‘yes’.
You guys are gonna go ham when you hear about fruit doves
some people say it’s an echo chamber, but I would say it’s more akin to a thousand different echo chambers. There’s discord servers, private twitter feeds, tumblr mutual circles. An initial idea can get into one of these and bounce around it a whole bunch, changing along the way, before one of them brings it back out into the wider world, by which point it can seem very odd and undecipherable to any/everyone else. For instance:
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
